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He goes for a drive to purchase a pack of cigarettes; before he departs, he starts a fire in the hearth. Kristen realizes the chimney flue is closed, and attempts to open it; smoke emanating from the fire triggers a smoke alarm. Kristen attempts to disarm the smoke alarm when she is startled by another knock at the door; she drops the alarm on the floor, unnerved. She calls James' cellphone from the landline, but their call is cut short. She returns to the kitchen, where, unbeknownst to her, a man—Man in Mask—watches her from an adjacent hallway.

Kristen notices the smoke alarm she left on the floor is now sitting on a chair, and realizes someone else has been in the house. Upon going to retrieve her cell phone from the charger, she finds it is missing, and begins to panic. When she hears a noise from the backyard, she arms herself with a knife, and opens the curtains to find the Man in Mask, staring at her.

Screaming, she stumbles into the hallway, and watches as the front door unlatches with a crack. When she goes to push the door closed, the blonde woman, now in a doll mask—Dollface—peeks in a creepy manner. After locking the door, Kristen hides in the bedroom and hears the strangers outside banging violently against the walls of the house.

The noise eventually stops and James returns to the home. After she explains what has happened, he goes outside to the car to get his phone, whereupon he finds the car ransacked and sees Dollface watching him from afar. The couple attempt to leave in James' car but another woman in a pin-up girl mask—Pin-Up Girl—rear-ends them with a truck, forcing them to flee. Back inside the house, Kristen and James find a shotgun and wait for the intruders in a bedroom. Mike arrives and realizes something is wrong after seeing the smashed car in the driveway.

He enters the house, and James, mistaking him for one of the strangers, shoots him dead. Devastated, James remembers an old radio transmitter in the backyard shed.

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He leaves and encounters Pin-Up Girl, searching the backyard with a flashlight. When James tries to shoot her, the Man in Mask knocks him unconscious, discharging the gun in the process. Kristen hears the shot and runs to the shed. She finds the radio, but Pin-Up Girl smashes it with an ax.

Kristen rushes back to the house where she encounters Dollface, who taunts her with a knife, saying, "You're gonna die. Finding themselves tied to chairs in the living room with the strangers standing before them, Kristen demands, "Why are you doing this? The strangers then unmask themselves to the couple offscreen and take turns stabbing the couple before leaving the home. As they drive away in the truck, they come across two young boys on bicycles distributing religious tracts door-to-door. Dollface comes out of the truck and asks if she can have one of their tract cards.

One of the boys asks her, "Are you a sinner? One of the boys approaches Kristen's body and attempts to touch it. As he reaches out to her, Kristen wakes, startles him by grabbing his hand and screams. Film scholar Kevin Wetmore noted the film's portrayal of violence as a reflection of its contemporary culture, writing: Unlike in eighties slasher horror, for example, where engaging in negative behavior such as drinking, doing drugs, having premarital sex are often forerunners to being killed by the killer s ; [here], death is random and unrelated to one's behavior.

In The Horror Show Guide: The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies , Mike Mayo noted the film's "grim realism," writing that the main characters "could have wandered out of a gloomy Ingmar Bergman film," ultimately branding the film as an example of "naturalistic domestic horror" akin to Michael Haneke 's Funny Games. The film has also been noted by scholar Philip Simpson as highlighting "the divide between the underprivileged and privileged classes," as well as for its inversion of commonly-held beliefs about violence in urban areas and pastoral ethics: One might call the narrative sensibility informing The Strangers 'pastoral paranoia', in that danger lurks among the rough folk of the country rather than the suburbs and cities.

Of course, it may be that provincial violence is a result of contamination, or in other words that the kind of stranger-upon-stranger violence typically associated with urban life metastasizes to the rural, a phenomenon noted by Louis Wirth. In his book Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film , scholar Tony Williams notes the film's setting within a s-era home as representative of an "American tradition of violence that is random and without any coherent explanation.

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Bryan Bertino, on his inspiration for the film. Writer-director Bryan Bertino wrote the screenplay which was originally titled The Faces ; [9] it was the third screenplay he had ever written. According to production notes [9] and subsequent interviews, [10] the film was inspired by true events from Bertino's childhood: As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it.

At the door were some people asking for somebody who didn't live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors on the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.

In interviews, Bertino stated he was "very impressed" with some of the theories circulating on the Internet about the "true events" the movie is allegedly based on, but said that his main inspiration was the true crime book Helter Skelter about the Manson Family murders ; [12] some journalists speculated that the film was also inspired by the unsolved Keddie Cabin Murders of that occurred in a small vacation community in California's Sierra Nevada.

Bertino entered the screenplay for The Strangers into a screenwriting contest, after which he sold its directorial rights to Universal Pictures. When casting the two leading actors in the film, Bertino sought Liv Tyler for the role of Kristen. Often in movies, it's all spelled out for you, and the dialogue is very explanatory. But Bryan doesn't write like that; he writes how normal people communicate—with questions lingering.

And then he still did not look at it in the time it took to get a flight to Hong Kong … really? I am not sure Strangers stands up to too much scrutiny. Jonah eventually gets a pink charger in Chungking Mansions in Kowloon. And his message, just the one. Which he listens to. She has got herself into something … she is not sure if she will see him again … she wishes things had been different … she loves him well, that might be some sort of consolation, I guess.

And then he listens to the crash, the yellow truck, remember? But then there is a gunshot.

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Two deaths, one for each husband, perhaps. And it is certainly intriguing — maybe even enough to tune in next week. Topics Drama TV review. John Simm Television reviews. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All. I'm Dutch and our country is a lot smaller than GB, hence we have even less actors. It didn't bother me.

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